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StarCraft II lacks anti aliasing

Blizzard made a conscious decision to leave anti-aliasing out of the retail version of their new game, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. But from the screenshots we’re seeing, there’s some instances that the game has


Install PSP Custom Firmware 5.00 M33 Prometheus add-on

With 5.03 GEN-C and 5.50 GEN-D3 getting their own respective Prometheus (5.50 GEN Prometheus and 5.03 GEN Prometheus) plugins that will allow them to play games that require Sony’s 6.20 OFW and above, can


Microsoft killed PC/Xbox 360 cross platform project

It’s something probably most gamers would want to see. With millions of players on both sides of the gaming coin, it’s almost a match made in heaven right? A supposed feature of Microsoft’s Live


Valve releases Alien Swarm for free on Steam

Valve gives yet another game away.   This time around it’s Alien Swarm, a futuristic first-person top-down shoot-em-up shooter computer game with roots from a mod of the same name for Unreal Tournament 2004. 


Starcraft II Official System Requirements

Woot! In less than two weeks, we’ll be seeing the release of the highly anticipate Starcraft II (that’s July 27 for those not following the Starcraft II release date). The official


EA announces Dragon Age 2

The sequel to Bioware’s amazing RPG, Dragon Age has been announced by publisher Electronic Arts. I know what you’re asking…. What happened to my Morrigan?  Details are sketchy now but we’ll get the trailer in


Install PSP Custom Firmware 5.03 Prometheus add-on

If you had 5.03 GEN-C and you’ve probably experienced having problems playing games with Sony’s new DRM which requires 6.20 OFW. Luckily, Liquidzigong created Prometheus Module so that users with 5.03 GEN-C (meaning


Install PSP Custom Firmware 5.50 Prometheus add-on

Even with 5.50 GEN-D3 installed on your PSP, you won’t be able to play some of the newer games without proper patching or plugin to help bypass Sony’s new DRM which requires 6.20 OFW.


Sony gives away free games for PSP Go buyers

Free PSP Games from Sony? For it’s PlayStation Portable? I found it hard to believe at first but considering the poor sales of the PSP Go, I guess we should have expected


Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance

Finally! Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance gets released on DVD and Blu-Ray. Much like the first movie, Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone which had it’s Blu-Ray release using the moniker


Monster Hunter Tri Tips: Newbie’s Guide

If you’re new to the monster hunter series, you’d best take this guide, Monster Hunter Tri Tips: Newbie’s Guide to heart. The game takes skill and patience to play the game. Sure


Steam is now officially on the Mac

Gaming?  On a mac?  The words Mac and Gaming used to be mutually exclusive.  Today things have changed with the official launch of Steam for the Mac.  The best part?  Just for downloading Steam


The Nintendo DS is now the best selling portable console

Take a seat Gameboy, Nintendo’s latest portable console has taken the first place in the race for the best selling portable console.


HowTo: Play StarCraft II Beta Offline vs AI

So you’ve started watching several Starcraft 2 Beta replays on your PC and you decide that you want in on the action. Unfortunately, you don’t have a BETA key to do that.


Currently Playing: No More Heroes 1 and 2

I really was hesitant to start playing No More Heroes because of the premise that screenshots and videos of the game seemed a wee bit familiar; it felt like those “do-good-yet-tough-guy-routine” characters from several


Using a Nintendo DS to control a DSLR

And I always thought gaming and photography are different disciplines 😀 A group of ingenious photographer at HDRLabs have created a piece of software called the Open Camera Controller (OCC). OCC works


Sony announces PlayStation Move Motion Controller

Sony gets center stage at the Game Developers Conference with their latest controller dubbed the PlayStation Move. For one thing, Sony gets props for it’s guts because this controller looks hauntingly


Happy 10th Birthday PlayStation 2

10 years and 140 million units sold (as of October 1, 2009), that’s a small testament to the Sony’s success with the PS2. Can you take a guess at what my first PS2


StarCraft II Closed Beta Begins!

Blizzard has just announced the start of closed beta testing for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and a handful of lucky (bastards?) players are already enjoying the game. As for the much awaited


Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Patch Progress

The image shown above shows in great detail how far the khbbs patch progress is. It’s a RED screen! What’s the purpose of the RED screen for the Kingdom Hearts: Birth


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